What is the Future of the UNP post-2020?
Losing another election will not mean anything much to Ranil Wickremasinghe UNP’s leader since 1994, but the thought of departing from politics branded as a traitor to the Nation is nothing any UNP...
Category: Sri Lanka Politics
Don’t sell my Mother: Are Portuguese-Dutch-British being replaced by India-China-US?
Have we learnt lessons? Don Juan Dharmapala not only baptized himself but even gifted Lanka to the Portuguese. Rajasinghe II learnt a bitter lesson when he thought the Dutch was better than the Portuguese...
Sri Lanka’s Choice: Deed E-Land Register or MCC/Bim Saviya E-Land Register?
The main argument to support the MCC Land Project is that technology will put an end to land problems & Sri Lanka will be on par with countries using advanced technologies. These countries are...
Sri Lanka has already prepared the E-Land Register – We do not need MCC $67m Land Project
Sri Lanka has almost completed the E-Land Register.Do we need MCC funds with demands that require constitutional changes?This supposed ‘gift’ comes with a set of conditions & pre-conditions that even warrants the MCC...
GoSL must not make the same mistake with MCC as done with Indo-Lanka Accord & 13a
On 29 July 1987 India forced Sri Lanka to sign what became known as the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord that led to the deployment of Indian Peace Keepers. Part of that Accord also...
Colombo East Terminal – why Sri Lanka can never trust India
There is much controversy over East Terminal of Colombo Port with India & Japan claiming that a Memorandum of Cooperation signed in May 2019 with the previous Government, binds the present government from giving...
Covid & MCC Sri Lanka: Health risk in flooding Sri Lanka with US/Foreign Personnel?
US tops the world list on coronavirus cases and deaths with 3.2million cases and 137,000 deaths in a world with over 12million cases and over 560,000 deaths. Sri Lanka has had 11 deaths with...
MCC Agreement Sri Lanka: Translate & Publish in Sinhala & Tamil
When the Cabinet spokesmen continuously makes controversial statements and does not apologize for the mistake, it is natural for citizens to be anxious given that most Governments have not only fooled the public,...
Who says MCC is not linked to Bim Saviya (Title Registration)
There is a notion that MCC has nothing to do with Title Registration because it was a project started well before MCC Compact was introduced. The answer is only half correct. Yes, Title Registration...
MCC Sri Lanka: ONLY ENGLISH (no Sinhala/Tamil) in E-Land Registrar violation of LANGUAGE provision in Constitution
That MCC has undergone various stages of approval or observation prior to finalizing the document certainly questions how far our own are interested to view a bilateral document and appraise it considering the...
